http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:32 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-373090 Very nice site! 373090@desicritics.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:32 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-373089 Very nice site! cheap cialis http://opeaixy.com/qsqavoa/4.html 373089@desicritics.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:01:30 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-373088 Very nice site! [url=http://opeaixy.com/qsqavoa/2.html]cheap cialis[/url] 373088@desicritics.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:00:25 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-157452 I totally agree with the two persons that commented earlier. To also make a new statement here: I agree ever-greening in its true form should not be allowed as the farmaceutical company should have been able to have earned back the costs for research in a 20-year patented period (from which about 8-10 years is spent on research and obtaining approval: leaving about 10-12 years for having paid back the costs for research and search for new medicines). However, This does totally not affect Novartis' patent on Glivec as this medicine was only firstly discovered and patented in 1993, marketed in 2001 and therefore (count with me) the original patent would end in 2013. However the above stated responses, as well as mine are not told when Medicines Sans Frontier launched a campaign to blackmail Novartis, while Novatis was their partner in supplying medicines for free to the poor. That is a shame in my opinion! Also abolishing patents leaving generic pharmaceuticals that are also only thinking about their own profits, to rule the market would not even help a bit. The prices they ask for these medicines are indeed lower, but so are the guarantees they give and still these prices cannot be affforded by the really poor people in these world. Better have therefore the poor receiving medicines for free (as Novartis is doing) and have the rich people pay for that. 157452@desicritics.org Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:42:54 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-132340 Glivec is available FREE OF COST from Novartis for patients who cannot afford the retail price. I am afraid that you have misled your Chinese friend! I am sure you will appreciate, as you are a practicing doctor, that new formulations of molecules add additional indications: they also require fresh clinical trials. Novartis has discovered important limitations to Glivec use more than a decade after its discovery: no generic manufacturer has bothered with such niceties! 'Evergreening' is the political slang of the bigoted-it does not suit medical science in my opinion. 132340@desicritics.org Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:11:33 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/03/17/081821.php#comment-130980 Simple economics, creating a new drug costs immensely in research & testing which is why they are expensive. Generic drugs are copied from the originals from stolen formulas so its much cheaper. Thus if cheap drugs are to be made, the governments must reduce taxes on drug companies to zero or even better fund the total cost of the research required so that its not passed on to the consumer. 130980@desicritics.org Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:48:55 EDT